206: Single Splicer Female

ENTRY 206: Single Splicer Female

She seeks company. Watches everything, learns quickly, and shows active interest in what her victim does. She shares their interest, asks to borrow their media, talks with them about it. Always, always, she wants to know about them, turns the attention and conversation back to them, their past, how they feel, what they think, what they want. The most egotistical and self-centered don’t seem to notice until she starts dressing like them. Borrowing clothes. Then maybe changes her hair to match theirs. Her eyes. Her face. By then, it’s almost too late…and she already has some of their passcodes and identification, passing herself off as them on far-flung parts of the Mesh, begging favors and squirreling away funds…

Whatever her original identity, the Single Splicer Female has long buried it under a chain of assumed identities. Her concept of self is unstable, and so she latches on to an individual—often a female splicer in need of a roommate or partner, though when at loose ends she is less picky. They may become friends or lovers. With connection comes identification; she sees her victim as her idealized self and seeks to become them. Given time and transhuman augmentation technology, there’s no telling how far she might go, but most of her victims interfere by the time she starts using her skinflex to assume their appearance and begins to steal their identity.

COG	COO	INT	REF	SAV	SOM	WIL	MOX
15	22	18	16	13	15	16	-
INIT	SPD	LUC	TT	IR	DUR	WT	DR
7	1	32	6	64	30	6	45

Morph: Splicer

Skills: Academics: Anthropology 35, Academics: Psychology 45, Academics: Sociology 30, Art: Acting 45, Art: Makeup 50, Blades 33, Deception 60, Disguise 38, Interests: Gossiping 25, Interests: Identity Theft 60, Interests: Stalking 55, Interfacing 30, Kinesis (Faces): 50, Language: Native English 85, Language: Spanish 70, Language: Portuguese 70, Language: French 50, Networking: Media 24

Implants: Basic Biomods, Basic Mesh Inserts, Cortical Stack, Mental Speed, Sex Switch, Skinflex, Skillware

Traits: Mental Disorder (Adaptive Identity Disorder)

Using Single Splicer Female

A doppelganger with a psychotic twist and a penchant of going for your online wallet, Single Splicer Female is a solid choice for a contact that goes from cool to clingy to scary. While presented as an individual, given the way that Eclipse Phase plays with identity there could be any number of egos with the same Adaptive Identity Disorder and a criminal bent—possibly an entire gang that mimics and then replaces a small group of people, uses their identities for some purpose, and then abandons them, fading away into the sea of transhumanity to pull the same con again.

On the other hand, the Single Splicer Female can be seen as a victim of their mental illness, driven by their impulses and lack of self-identity into an unhealthy lifestyle and a cycle of abusive relationships. “Fixing” them is probably beyond the PCs’ abilities or cares—a long-term project that involves a great deal of therapy, medication, and helping the SSF come to terms with and establish their own identity, a task better left to psychiatric care professionals and institutions. Although, an individual who understands their illness and has sufficiently strong will and resources could use it to their advantage, and turn the SSF from a minor criminal to a deadly assassin…